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The Department of Cultural Heritage (CRD), after receiving information that online advertisements are already selling apartments in the object of cultural heritage, the building of the Evangelical Reformed Synod of Vilnius, which is currently under external management, warns the residents that the internal design may be different after the works. are completed. The attention of cultural heritage specialists was especially noted by the announcement about the apartment for sale, in which the future bedroom is supposedly planned to be installed in a round room of the building, on the site of the old chapel.
“So far, the project has been approved only for the external management of the building. Due to the internal restoration and adaptation of the premises, the Vilnius branch of the CRD has not received any projects and has therefore not approved the installation of apartments. When we receive the project, we will decide on the approval or disapproval of the interior design solutions, – said Gerda Ožiūnaitė, director of the Vilnius branch of the CRD. – Just for building owners to place ads about supposedly planned apartments, we cannot punish, but residents should be careful. Yes, we have seen advertisements for a supposed future bedroom in a round room. I think a bedroom instead of an old chapel and then an old archive is not a very good choice. But for now, it’s just an ad. Below this room in the basement are crypts. No one will really allow them to grow up. In my opinion, the installation of bedrooms in a building chapel with crypts with possible burials (no investigation done) is not appropriate. These premises could be adapted and made available to the public as museum installations, for example, to present the history of this building. But we will solve everything when we receive an interior rehabilitation project and adaptation of the building. We don’t have it yet. We will forward the request to the owner of the building so that they do not do any construction work inside the building without the necessary documents.
The Vilnius Territorial Division of the CRD has approved only the Building of the Evangelical Reformed Synod of Vilnius, the Building of the Synod of the Complex of Other Objects (unique code in the Register of Cultural Heritage 27037), located at Pylimo str. 7, Vilnius, a facade management works project (restoration, conservation, repair) and has issued a permit to carry out management works (restoration, conservation, repair) of a cultural heritage object.
The Vilnius Territorial Division of the CRD also approved the one-room residential building on Pylimo str. 7 in Vilnius for a major repair project (facade, roof, staircase), which does not address internal design. We also note that the Vilnius Territorial Division of the CRD has not approved the project of administrative construction works, which would provide for the change of purpose of the synod building and the formation of houses.
Asset protection specialists point out the tendency that properties for sale advertised in advertisements do not always have documents that authorize the administrative protection of heritage or construction works, which are issued in accordance with the legislation, for the works that therein are done.
The purpose does not change significantly
The building has been neglected for the past decades, and a fire broke out in 2013 that severely damaged it. “After the building was returned to the evangelical reformers, they did not take much care of it and then they sold the building. The current owners (UAB SPV-11) ordered an accident elimination project and carried out the works. They also commissioned a works project management, before which an applied research was carried out, during which new valuable data was found, – said Indrė Baliulytė, Chief Specialist for Territorial Planning and Heritage Research Organization. – The administrator has signed an agreement of security that states that the public can also present its interior. Under the terms of the Security Contracts, the terms of the contract remain in effect if the item is sold to a new manager. Consequently, when buying apartments in a house, owners of apartments should know that they will have to comply with the heritage protection requirements and admit people who want to see the l premises of the cultural heritage object in the apartments in accordance with the conditions specified in the Protection Agreement. . ”
According to I. Baliulytė, this building is practically safe from demolition. A few years ago, his state was one of emergency. The specialist pointed out that the building is designed to restore the polychrome and moldings, other authentic elements, and this, together with the historical knowledge of this building, increases its value. Heritage conservationist historian I. Baliulytė, who conducted historical research on this building some time ago, emphasizes that the new owners of its purpose do not plan to change much – the building was inhabited.
How Reformed Evangelicals Found In This Very Place
According to the historical research report, the settlement of Reformed Evangelicals in this area was caused by conflicts with Catholic society. The Reformed came to Vilnius at the invitation of Mikalojus Radvila, a voivodeship, until 1553. Although the Evangelical Reformers were granted royal privileges, they were constantly attacked by Catholic society, burning buildings. 16th century characterized by fierce religious struggles. Eventually the Reformed moved beyond the city walls and settled near the graveyard behind the Trakai Gate. Evangelicals have been buried there since the 16th century. final. Until World War II, the Reformed community in this territory ruled four parcels between Pylimas, Basanavičius, Kalinauskas and Teatro st. The main plot, surrounded by a brick fence, was in the center. The second plot near Pylimo str. Renovated leased. The third plot, to the north of the central plot, had a garden. Fourth parcel, 1809. Delivered to the reformed Dominican community, it was rented outside the Synod building.
According to I. Baliulytė, according to documents found by previous researchers, the construction of the perimeter of the central plot did not change until the Second World War. It was built in the northern part of the territory in 1640. Cemeteries were established in the 20th century. it was situated in the middle of 1777. the Šreteriai chapel was built: the mausoleum, the chapel of the Vinhold family (the date of its construction is not clear), the town hall building and other residential and agricultural buildings.
In the synod building: dwelling, chapel, hall
I. Balulytė used Vaclovas Gizberto Studnickis (1874-1962) in historical research, from the historian and archivist, author of five books on Vilnius dedicated to the Jubilee of the Reformed, describing the history of the Reformed Evangelicals as well as the history of the Reformed Evangelical Synod building examined by Teresė Dambrauskaitė in the inventory of the Evangelical Reformed Synod. This inventory provides a lot of interesting information about this cultural heritage object: 16th-19th centuries. the Synod building built in the mid-19th century, which has survived to this day in the depths of the plot.
“A two-story house that was in the Gothic period (the southern part of the existing building) was rebuilt during the Renaissance, and a chapel was built with a cellar next to it,” said I. Baliulytė. – In the classicist period, the buildings were merged into a current common building. The building housed living quarters and an archive room was later established at the north end of the building. until the 20th century. In the middle of the 16th to the 18th century. works published by famous printers. Its authors were the pioneers of the Reformation, disseminators of ideas, critics and scholars: Martin Luther, Philip Melanchthon, Ulrich Zwingl, Jean Calvin, Théodor Bèze, Henrich Bulinger, Johann Sturm, Johann Henrich Ursin, among others, as well as evangelicals. Reformed manuscripts The war fell into the funds of the Library of the Academy of Sciences (Wroblewski). Among these documents is a unique scroll that has preserved the signatures of three famous men from the Radvila family. This is a letter from Mikalojus Radvila Rudojas of the Vilnius Voivodeship, issued in Vilnius in 1577. According to the heritage conservationist, there is no doubt that the Evangelical Reformed cemeteries were first established outside the city walls. Later, other plots were donated to the reformers, where other buildings were built. The wooden church was built before 1651. The cemetery area was fenced off earlier. In 1655 during the war the church and other buildings were burned, the brick fence was demolished.
T. Dambrauskaitė concluded that the part of the synod building now standing, which includes a round tower with a basement, is a fragment of the first Reformed church. The largest building in the celebration is the synod building. It was found along the perimeter of the old Dominican garden. There was an oval window above the door; from this description we know the current building. The building has two floors, with a loft. 19th century In the middle of the 19th century the house was rebuilt, part of the premises was expanded, some premises were reduced.
The first floor of the building indicates the old vaulted ceiling. Of great importance was the round-plan archive room with dome-shaped vaults: it housed the foundation of the community and other important documents, books, as well as ceremonial utensils and the treasure of the church (in this room, the advertisement indicates the planned bedroom). After World War II, the documents were transferred to the library of the Academy of Sciences (now Wrublewski). The building was not just an archive: there were apartments for a teacher and an organist, a bedroom for poor children, a hospital. The plot was fenced with a brick fence covered with tiles.
The building was renovated in 1833: new doors were installed and stoves were rebuilt. The attic is adapted for housing. The wall paintings in the rooms are described: the friezes are painted, the ceilings are also painted by the artist (the last name is not specified). Floral decorations painted in the corners and in the middle of the ceiling.
1940 the renovated farm was nationalized. After the Second World War, the territory was reorganized, the tombs and chapels of the cemetery were destroyed. The above-ground portion of the Shreter Chapel-Mausoleum, which was still standing at the time, was demolished. The boundaries of the historic parcels disappeared, the cemetery fence was demolished. During these transformations, a new plaza of purpose was created on the territory of the cemetery. In 1983, following the demolition of Shreter Chapel, a plaza, now called In the western part, in the western part, a “Monument to the Soviet partisans and underground” was erected (sculptors – A. Zokaitis, J. Kalinauskas; architects – G.Baravykas, G. Ramunis, K. Pempė).
Source: Department of Cultural Heritage
